Subject: Re: atheism
From: jason varsoke (jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 13:17:01 EST
> << It is hard to make any sense of what Derrida and his fellows are
> talking about because they completely admit to the failure of language to
> have absolute meaning. Because of deconstruction they can't really say
> anything with a straight face. I think that's why they break down and
> away from purely rational concepts. Once language is identified as
> irrational and cubist there is little sanity in trying to exchange
> rational ideas in traditional form through it.
>
> -jay >>
>
> There are better people than me on this list to answer you, but first I'd be
> careful to distinguish Derrida from other postmodern writers. He doesn't
> affirm, so far as I understand him, that language has no meaning, but that an
> utterance can't be tied down to one single meaning. There is a world of
> difference here.
>
> Jim
There is also a world of difference in: "[failure] to have absolute
meaning" and "to have absolutely no meaning." I said the first, you said
hte second.
-jay
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